Hey all,
I am in the market for some headphones. Got a new laptop and I am buying a FIIO E7 DAC/amp to make it produce better sound. Now I just have to find a perfect pair of head phones for max $400! I listen to indie, rock, blues and classical etc. depending on the mood. I would prefer a clean sound that is not biased towards bass. I'm listening to flac. files on the laptop and transferring them to my smartphone currently. If if find the smartphones no good once I get the phones I'll buy a Cohen. I found the Sennheiser MM 450 really exciting until an audiophile explained to me it decodes with A2DP technology which is lossy. This is no good since I've gone to the trouble to re-rip everything to flac. I would love one pair of headphones that sound as mentioned above but are also travel friendly like the 450's; the design of those are great. I have heard mention of a apt-X codec that makes bluetooth set ups almost lossless and it is sold with some Sennheiser models. Is this true and does it work? I don't necessarily need the bluetooth function, these phones come with a wired capability too. Would they be lossless quality with the wire connected?
Interested to hear what others think of these phones and hit me with recommendations of other phones if the MM 450's can't produce lossless sound any which way. Noise canceling isn't a necessity but it would get used.